STEELWORKERS vowed to fight for their jobs and industry today after the British government announced a £500 million investment package in Tata Steel that could cost 3,000 jobs at the company’s Port Talbot steelworks.

Trade union leaders reacted with anger at the joint deal between the Westminster government and the Indian steel giant, claiming the replacement of the south Wales steelworks’ two blast furnaces with one electric arc furnace could potentially cost thousands of jobs in the process.

The government and company claim the proposal lays the decarbonisation pathway towards globally competitive and sustainable steelmaking in Port Talbot.